• It will be the first time since the 16th century that the jewelled cross, travelling altar and sapphire ring found in St Cuthbert's coffin are shown alongside the Gospels.

    BBC: Lindisfarne Gospels Durham exhibition tickets go on sale

  • It will be the first time since the 16th Century that the jewelled cross, travelling altar and sapphire ring found in St Cuthbert's coffin will be shown alongside the Gospels.

    BBC: Lindisfarne Gospels host Durham University gets ?500k

  • Perk up with a caffeine boost and breakfast at Monmouth Coffee, then walk east to cross Tower Bridge and admire the 11th-Century Tower of London.

    BBC: A perfect day in London

  • Some may even relish the fate of the original Damian, a third century saint who was hung on a cross, stoned and shot by arrows and finally suffered execution by beheading.

    BBC: Martha Kearney's week

  • The whole changing-money-every-time-you-cross-the-border thing was so last century.

    FORBES: Euro Crisis: Nightmare Scenarios For US Travelers

  • Over the past century, thousands of Cubans have died attempting to cross the Florida Straits in makeshift boats and rafts.

    BBC: Cuba lifts travel restrictions

  • The new photography could only hint at where the original lines of text once were, but it recorded the 18th Century inscription describing the re-erection of the cross before it, too, is weathered beyond recognition.

    BBC: 9th Century Pillar of Eliseg

  • Yet, as the editors of this ambitious history point out in their introduction, neither such gastronomic cross-fertilisation nor the vaunted green revolution of the late 20th century has succeeded in eradicating malnutrition and starvation from many countries.

    ECONOMIST: Food in history

  • Hence the excitement over the recent cleaning of the frescoes in Santa Croce's main chapel and the news that the restorers' scaffolding will remain in place for most of 2013, allowing visitors to see Agnolo Gaddi's late-14th-century fresco cycle, "The Legend of the True Cross, " from the vantage point of the artist himself.

    WSJ: A Heavenly View From On High | Basilica of Santa Croce | Agnolo Gaddi | By Francis X. Rocca

  • Half a century or so ago, the Klan was remembered for its nocturnal cross burnings, its bombing of black churches, its occasional murders.

    ECONOMIST: The Ku Klux Klan

  • In the courtyard, the stone St Patrick's cross replicates the worn original in the Rock of Cashel's 15th-century Hall of the Vicars Choral, which was built to house the cathedral's male choristers.

    BBC: Who was the real St Patrick?

  • Over the years, John would teach, mentor, and cross-train seven younger employees and together they would lead our company into the 21st century of information technology and analytics.

    FORBES: John Bruce was a polling genius -- and a pioneer

  • He suggests that the cross of St Cuthbert, abbot of Lindisfarne when it was a European centre of Christian learning in the 8th century, has a wider appeal because it was also adopted by the Prince Bishops of Durham.

    ECONOMIST: Put out more flags

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